The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

THE STATE.
.RoosTooK COUNTY.

THE STATE.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The proceeds Of the two days fair and fes-
tval at the recent opening of the Van Buren
College, is said to have been $500.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
Schools have been shut up in West Farm
ington on account of the diphthera.
Mr.. Ira Plaisted Of Lowell, and his son
Asa R., with Billy S0ule as guide, captured
Q very fine large moose on the Cupsuptic
stream on Saturday night week. Billy sets
his weight at 200 pounds. He was seven
hands high, and his antlers measured feet
and inch across.
At the last term of court the hotel keepers
were brought up with a round turn. III. Il.
Kimball, Of the Rangeley Lake Hotel Har-
ry Pierce Of the Oquoccoc Hotel at Range
ley, and Samuel Farmer Of the Baden House
ct Phillips, were convicted under the liquor
law.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The saw mill at Richmond has been shut
down this week for repairs on the engine.
Mr.. Daniel Il. COrcoran of Lynn has been
appointed superintendent In the making,
stock and packing rooms at w. f. Morg0n Il
Co.'S shoe factory. Superintendent j. c.
Bailey resumes his former charge Of the
stitching and box-making rooms.
In the new shoe factory at HallOwell,
there will be about fifty stitchers and six
Reese button-hole makers, which will make
complete eleven button holes per minute
| One Of the machines cost over $780, and an
other weighs over two tons.
On the Kennebec river there will be con-
| siderable Improvement this fall to ice prOp-
critics aud in new buildings, says the Maine
| Farmer. The Knickerb0eker Ice Company
| have already begun to build at Chelsea, on
the ''old orchard" lot, block of three
rooms, under a single roof, to hold 1900
fhs. DrA Inn.
| framed large house at the Randolph steam
| mill This company have a number of
| properties on the Kennebec and Cathance
| rivers, and on the coast, which IL Is said, win
be put in shape and filed the coming winter.
| Some OF the houses are In dilapidated con-
| dition, and such improvement will add 20 the
| value and appearance of the Kennebec. The
| Haynes Il Dewitt Ice Company are doing
| considerable in the way Of improvements TO
their lcebOro houses. including new eleya-
tor. piers, repairing wharf, etc. The Coeh-
| rane and Oler Ice Company, Berry, Haley,
/ Independent and Great Falls lee Companies
| are also making the usual fall improvements
about their houses.
A large granite shaft Of the obelisk pattern
has just been shipped by the Hallowel
Granite Company TO private parties in Syra
cuse, n. Y.
Maine Pilot, the promising two-year ole
stallion, owned 6y Gen. j. +. Richards o
Gardiner, has been sold to Hurbinger Bros.
Of New Haven, Conn. for 81 800 IL is said
The same party have also purchased two
year old stallion Of Mr.. CrOssman, of Yves
Gardiner, and Pilot Knox colt at Augusta
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Thomas ID. Pinkham has the honorable
distinction Of being the oldest ex-soldier il
the home at TOgus. Tie was born at Booth
bay, Nov. 15 1895, and Is therefore 81 year
Of age. He Is "A veteran OF the Mexican va
as well as Of the Rebellion, having served Ii
| 4fh MaiuQ Infantry nj ia 4.
and 9th Maine Batteries, his trrm Of service
beginning with the war ana ending with th,
proclamation Of peace. The state Of Maini
has always been his home though he ha
travelled all over the United States an,
through eleven kingdoms. He followed thi
sea 81 years, has four generations o
descendants living, though but three Of BIZ
own children out Of twenty-One are nov
alive, the Oldest, woman 6o years 0f age.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
At an adjourned meeting II the old rJwi
Wooden Company, \. Sim, OF HWtlaid. n1
been elected director An a-seo- meut p
fifteen per cent ON the capital stock WAS sci
ed. Ga motion Of Hon. j ), Wbeeiwrlgh'
il was unanimously resolved that until
} clear, working cash capital Of o2O,UOO
raised. besides the 100000 already subSel II
ed, no manufacturing shall be begun. Ii
expected that the contract for the building
the granite retaining wall, and head work
will be let.
A report from Winu states that Ann
Hathaway of Midway, girl Is years of AK
was accidentally shot Thursday, By gun
the hands of a boy named Fisk, Of aO0ut tI
same age. The gun was loaded with shO
which took effect in both of the girls arm
The Maine State College cadets are doin
large amount Of target shooting this fal
much interest being taken in il there. .
new 600 yards range with the new form {
target is about completed. This will enab
the shooting to be continuous and give niue
more practice.
Mr.. E. ]. Neal, of Southington, Conn
who has been on hunting trip along th
Machias river with Mr.. W. l.. Miller an
DR.. W. l.. Hunt, Of Bangor, returned
Bangor Saturday and left for his home 500
afterwards. he brought with him fir
large buck which he shot. and will have tt
skin tanned and made into a mat. Mr.. Ne
reports the shooting excellent and 9th,
kinds of game besides deer quite plent
where the party has been.
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
The largest blast ever exploded ON Il
! Canadian Pacific thundered forth in Piscat
/ quis county last week. The object was
} | loose a large mass of stone on the side of
mountain. seam was found and thTt
five kegs Of powder, together with a larl
amount Of rend rock, was put in. III
I noise of the explosion could be heard Il
4 miles and over 700 cubic yards Of solid roc
| were blown off the side Of the mOuntai
: This was probably as large railroad bla
/ as was ever fired.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
During the last twenty years. 556 divorc
have been decreed In Somerset county
There is considerable speculation in S
y lem concerning the sudden disappearan
( from that town Of W. III. Freeman, a ma
from Dover, who first came there more ths
. q week ago. He lectured one evening on q
a battles Of the late war. When last seen
was walking towards CaTratunk Falls.
!. WASHINGTON COUNTY.
g There Is some III feeling on the border
, Calais over the atte,Apt OF American capeI
: ters TO keep Province carpenters from Sorl
ing on this side by having the United State
: law regulating the matter enforced But u
v Calais Advertiser says the BluenoSes bega
|, the trouble, by excluding our mechanic
I from working over there.
q WALDO COUNTY.
Parties from abroad are negotiating for
lease OF the young ladies' academy in u
east village at Searsport, and propose
open a select school, giving pupils an 0ppo
: tunity to learn French from native teaehe
q Ex-Mayor Charles Baker, of Belfast, h;
brought a suit against the Republican JOu
4 nal for libel placing his damages at $1,000
| The alleged libellOus matter Is contained
: its issue OF Sept. 29th. in an article in rep
= to an article Ia the Progressive Age a wee
previous, in regard tO the water works.
its article, the journal stated that the
we're suspicious circumstances attending Il
: giving out OF the contracts. aud the susl
ci0ns then aroused were strengthened VIII,
later, an ex-mayOr made the water cOmpaI
I a factor in our city election, aud sought
r influence voters by promises OF various 10
: in connection with the work."
YORK COUNTY.
Scarlet fever has caused the closing Of I
primary and intermediate sch, ols in Kanu
bunk.
: Tuesday afternoon, SeIden and AIelyi
d GrrrDlaw, two brothers, While shingiiug. II